dozens are reportedly killed in the be able to operation odyssey dawn in full swing as foreign forces push forward with military intervention against the kind of gadhafi. international community you know seems to be needed. as the united states pushing in for a missile strikes against his forces to see it in a few moments for more on the capital tripoli. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited but for some americans it's deja vu is over the people of iraq operation. the kind of god says could obviously air defenses have been severely disabled i'll be back with more from washington in just

a few minutes. and russia calls on all sides to put an end to the violence while terming foreign intervention in libya is regrettable join me in a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. you're watching r.t. where large from moscow with a name to sneeze from around the world the libyan army claims forty eight people are dead and one hundred fifty others are wounded after a bomb bargains of cruise missiles and strikes american and european forces now reports that the broad international campaign france britain and the united states against the gadhafi regime established a naval blockade of libya t's'pol a series in tripoli where explosions and gunfire are being heard this morning. a lot of firing and he. has now been told that this isn't in response to.

here in the capital city tripoli not far from the compound. we do know that thousands of supporters have it was nice an insult and shields to protect the libyan leader does seem as if this operation which has been dubbed operation odyssey dawn is in full swing and we are being told as you know that some one hundred ten tomahawk missiles were fired in europe and british ships there was a french carrier in the area and other the spike on fringe site and we know that some twenty twentieth's has been. great for it to determine exactly what was hit because what we're hearing. a lot of civilians have been now least a division of the. enemy the t.v. it's a big air and missile strikes it's a constant tripoli need. to come forward and protect the major installations and

some didn't have reports of people on to the airport and other things except locations. by themselves and protection against at least most are operational this moment. and that it's really an asian cities are the main gas supplies and also the capital and. its positions. to come to we know that it's. because i'm fine he needed a lot of concern. and we're continuing our crisis that has been announced about twenty four hours earlier. here in the capital city tripoli and has not been for the last few hours when you hear any firing happening people are holed up in their homes people are probably televisions most people here. international gauge number most. exalted means evolve into some kind of long term

trend operation this is a country where for example you tell me an occupation and also name one kind of occupation. what happens in afghanistan and iraq and i certainly just start and it's not rationed eckstein. it's not going to also it seems less ability . you could have. possibly reporting there whether coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission but globalization and this. as a heavy artillery suggests a very different agenda. because no humanitarian operation. is a deadly wall it using a military material and just say that this is to save the

lives of civilians since when do these fighter bombers and save the lives of civilians. a war which has the jets of regime change this of course was not mentioned in the security council resolution but prime minister stephen harper of canada and i'm following the canadian responses has stated that the objective of this operation is to unseat capacity so that the whole humanitarian underpinnings of this war becoming entirely clear aspect is that in fact this military coalition has already reply elated to. the resolution which they themselves are pulls on the so-called international community article nineteen zero zero zero the resolution of the united nations security council resolution says to which it involved go on on weapons on to.

to libya but in fact what are they doing there draining in weapons supplying opposition forces with better that's true feed of this war is boil and. the united states counter all of their with the intent of the interests of oil for its own oil corporations and the extension of the influence into the big two into out here this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences on not only our own all the people of libya but most generally. well coalition combat aircraft and submarines based in several countries are involved in operation odyssey dawn and decision to take direct action to enforce the libyan no fly zone was thrashed out in a summit in paris just hours before the first strikes our europe correspondent daniel

bushell has more on the scale of the operation. reports have confirmed that some twenty warplanes already on libyan airspace from the french side which has been most active in this starting with the summit are now in military action they've sent referrals fighter jets miraj fighter jets also surveillance aircraft they say the key concern is to enforce a no fly zone over libya airspace in effect grounding colonel gadhafi is jets and helicopters and their number one concern is the civilian population in been around the area of goals the it to that effect the first military operation will be to enforce the no fly zone over the east of libya where the rebel strongholds are one hundred one hundred fifty kilometer area it comes after a decision at the paris summit where it was decided that the powers would go in and it was attended by the heads of the united nations the head of the league also the emir of qatar several foreign ministers of arab nations for example morocco and the

united arab emirates arab states saudi arabia qatar jordan and the united arab emirates have said they do back the deployment of a no fly zone over libya near space and the arab states will play a supporting role of a sleep key their support in the region for the e.u. powers are now falling into line we can confirm italy has offered seven of its air bases that we used by nato previously because it's a league just across the mediterranean from libya one of the key bases that will be used by western powers and we're also seeing other nations coming out and saying they support this for example norway netherlands here in belgium we've also seen canada saying it's five to just already in the region and ready to be deployed in two days they just need to sit there and western leaders e.u. leaders say they do support this campaign david cameron of the u.k. also anglo merkel of germany despite germany's abstention of the u.n. vote for a no fly zone she says she does back military intervention now they just won't be sending forces themselves germany won't be sending forces but it does support this

. several british members of parliament are skeptical about why their country is being dragged into conflict opposition m.p. jeremy corbyn says. selective in choosing when eventually is necessary. i think he was to call a ceasefire in order to hope for one hope to bring about a peaceful resolution of this conflict but it was beginning to look as though he was just trying to buy time for himself and i absolutely regret the lack of the cease fire and regret what is happening at the moment a lot of innocent people have already tried a lot more look as though they're going to die in the next few hours if they strike against. targets of the regime then they might be effective in doing that but i suspect the real problem is they're going to have to strike against targets in the cities not result in large numbers million casualties this is a terrible situation i think there's a lot of global standards going on here because what is happening in libya is

obviously terrible obviously gadhafi should have heeded the views of ordinary people and come to some kind of accommodation with them all removed himself from office. there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against iranian saudi arabia yemen or m r and have also been killing large numbers of civilians totally over the last few weeks and i think the worst is being very selective about this whilst the u.n. has put in place a resolution calling for a no fly zone and that is obviously they have not used the words regime change a little that's clearly what's intended and now there's a worry that we're getting ourselves involved in yet another war and yet another conflict which is essentially an internal civil war in libya and at the same time only six weeks ago britain was selling arms to libya buying oil from libya british companies were investing in libya libya was investing heavily in this country and

so it's in a very short space of time that libya has gone from most favored nation to zero and one sort of wonders at the speed of all this and many of those that are now calling for the bombing of libya were only a few weeks ago in libya doing business deals. and then. details of our top story this hour forty eight people have reportedly been killed and one hundred fifty others wounded after international coalition forces on the east or planes and missiles over the bia overnight there was heavy gunfire in tripoli with reports of military facilities and fuel storage tanks hit by the operation against. teams being led by france britain and united states on a scale not seen in the arab world since the iraq war about twenty libyan defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles fired from american and british ships and submarines gadhafi earlier gave a brief statement saying the beans and confront what he called your tax of the colonial crusader call for a u.n.

security council meeting to discuss the truth in a sea of the operation international action followed the un's resolution to allow the enforcement of the no lines are open to stop bloodshed on the ground. along with china and some countries disagree with the decision by western countries to start permissions in the region. president obama is promising not to deploy american ground forces in libya and this it's absolutely necessary he said america's role will be limited as part of the international effort to protect libyans from me but for some there is a real worry that it because the u.s. invasion of iraq eight years ago and the devastating consequences that could result what's he's going to try to carry brings us the american perspective from washington d.c. . the pentagon says air defenses have been a severely disabled as they put it the u.s. has launched missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean

targeting it cannot these air defenses and as the pentagon says the goal is to shape the battlefield for the coalition forces to take further action basically what they're doing is they're clearing this guy is so that he is not able to shoot down any planes of the coalition forces and the pentagon also says that this is just the beginning of the operation and in the coming few days more nato ships will converge on the lead here to enforce a naval blockade and earlier french fighter jets had carried out strikes on the doppies ground forces and there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attacks and really alarming reports where president obama also reiterated is that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground although there are still lot of questions as to the limits of this intervention will be enough for the coalition forces to do just this arm could be or will they go beyond that pool and what will be the outcome those are the questions everybody is asking and the fears are that this operation could could be

something more than just an efforts to protect a civilian severely as the wording of the u.i. resolution which was passed on thursday is basically all inclusive short of occupation of course and the fears are that certain actions taken by international forces could destabilize the situation even more shooting down without his fighter bombers and attacking other other military assets is one thing fighting but arming the rebels for example is something very different and we are getting reports that egypt's military is shipping arms over the border to levy and rebels in the age of the military as we know is there influenced by washington and reports so it's not just the khadafi army versus coalition forces this could the theory is that this could turn into a few. fledged civil war and the arms supplies could inflame the situation even further diplomatically speaking the white house has been trying very hard to not to appear as the driving force behind this military action is what they also stress

again and again that it is not just the western powers going to war in libya they stress that they have the support of the arab league older up to this point it is not really clear what the actual input of arab countries is in this action but what they what they need and very much want is the arab countries assistance so that it doesn't appear as the west cracking down on yet another arab state. but meanwhile antiwar activists say the u.n. resolution that sanction the attack america is riddled with contradictions in burned told r.t. the russians on the scene are world is in disarray. what on earth you mean by protecting civilians. means protecting civilians from both sides because there are clear. suggestions of. of atrocities on both sides it's certainly not a one sided thing. but of course i think the central point is that the whole thrust

of the intervention is not from the principal thing that accounts for the. for the contradictions and the holes in the resolution america think the whole thing is a mess so the resolution itself is full of. you have this thing that. for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution is passed in makes very specific demands which clearly were not in the resolution the demands that for example the government forces pulled back from a series of towns that kind of thing so you have a clear intention to. different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process roll on very similar situation going on in in bahrain is in many ways exactly the opposite feature so in my frame for example the plates united states defense secretary goes to. we can go as talks

leave and two days later the. gulf cooperation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are super similar about stopping the war in bahrain by effect to be intervening on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to quote stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the whole the whole position seems to me completely untenable and full of holes. where risings and some of the people take the time no longer seems an option keith homines news of war cost. you any less to cater for him in chief of mission and being hijacked by u.s. led coalition. there was no diplomatic activity this is an absolute horror of aggression it's just another war and if the world should really be frightened of the nature of nato and american power and attacking their own dictators there's

a popular uprising components of the uprising where the rebels attacked and maybe there's also genuine genuine dissidents but there's also islamic radical proxy forces there were backed by the united states during the cold in britain during the cold war and there is cia back forces front for the national salvation these are also part of the so-called rebels and they're met by other western agencies like the national endowment for democracy works and personally they're so this is really a very manipulated so-called conflict the people of libya the real true free the popular uprising people of libya are going to suffer and it will be very long once they get going can be restored and people through popular uprising in the allies and they have no control over the country because the united states and france and italy have been again. russia has described the international military action maybe as regrettable foreign ministry's. everything they can to stop it in suffering and

agree immediate ceasefire there is across reaction in moscow. russia has expressed regrets over this international intervention into libya and a statement by the foreign ministry they called on all sides to use violence as soon as possible while russia has been against international of intervention in libya pretty much since the start of an arrest in the country around a month ago now some circles are started to voice concern over international intervention led by by britain france and the united states saying that it could be overstepping the the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. gallow for the federation council the foreign affairs committee leader has said that in his own opinion he believes that the they all going too far with this action is to be taken actually of the resolution the number nine hundred seventy three its main goal was to defend the civilian population but

not to punish the gadhafi regime or overthrow it so in that respect with think that one thousand nine hundred seventy three resolution is mostly humanitarian resolution from humanitarian resolution jennifer militarism lucia my personal concern he's that any military operation which is conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to a very predictable scenario why called abroad is in the world in the conflict and they get together and start fighting against foreign invaders there were several examples of such scenarios in the history of the greater middle east so i think that we all have to be very cautious now and we all have to think first of all of that the political solution should go before a military solution we think that it could offer regime has already lost its

internal and international credibility but we think also. people will leave. their problems. visible to begin a visit to the region he's in egypt on sunday before heading off to algeria now both of those countries of course libya they're going to be watching very closely what happens in the country. is there to discuss deals. between russia and egypt and algeria notice first visit to the to egypt since the revolution there in january and he'll be watching what goes on in libya very very closely to see what russia's next move will be as it deals with its partners in the region the suffering the peace. and international intervention at the moment. he's campaign is wondering exactly what it's trying to protect

antiwar activists. and civilians. well i think the honda's operation has already you. know it's probably too late for a large intervention that will cover the oil fields of the axes tools to keep the ins i think the goal is anything but to humanitarian purposes a standoff situation maybe and they have to divide the country and there are probably. other forces and united states england great britain and france are really negotiating with the. new government in the eastern part of libya but. they're also on their own a great chance of a prolonged civil war situation was dialogue is certainly the report and i think

the russians. are right to to to back up and just see what's what's unfolding now what's unfolding now appears to be. a larger scale military operation and as we've seen in recent wars. allies in foreign military forces against libya and justify it in a way to safeguard civilians one humanitarian expert says it's the perfect excuse for the forces to target the he's been ostracized by the work community for decades . i think it's you know it's another. thing to figure it's an. enemies of most european poles and also the arab league and of course all of the people in the film think. so.

miscalculated the beginning i think because this is a distant dimension to school intervention in the west which has been going to cause a little interest in so much. in afghanistan and iraq to come back in just to make . your intervention can be a loose a perfect kid because it's a villain it's not the friend of the list and the it isn't doing. any sitting a number of the kids will claim to intervene on many encounters because of the. reminder again of developing these forty eight people have reported being killed and one hundred fifty others wounded after international coalition forces on the war planes and missiles over there yet overnight there was heavy gunfire in tripoli with reports of russian cities and fuel storage tanks hit the operation against colonel. mike rounds with an uninvited states on a scale not seen well since the iraq war about twenty libyan defense targets have

been hit in the west of the country more than one hundred missiles fired from american and british ships and submarines colonel gadhafi earlier gave a brief statement saying confront what he calls the tax. regency u.n. security council meeting in the skies lit in a sea of your version of international action for the u.n. resolution now the enforcement of and rising to stop the bloodshed on the ground russia along with china and some latin american countries disagree with decision by western countries to start relations. in the region. of course of conflict across our coverage of events in libya through our twitter and facebook feeds my correspondents are covering the world's biggest events right now also getting expert analysis on the buttons to follow us and head for twitter search for party on the store. if you know it's ok it's how

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